Lancom AirLancer MC-54, Manual

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as well as the currently selected frequency band, the signal strength, the
name of the selected profile and your own IP address.
Information about sent and received data can be found under
Diagnostics ,
under the Advanced tab there are statistics and further information about
transfered frames and potential transmission errors shown.
You may deactivate the radio connection uder
Action / Disable Radio ,
change the country setting ( Country Select ) and disable the indication of the
tray icons ( Disable Tray Icon ).
4.4 Encryption settings
You have to enter the keys in the settings for encryption which should secure
the connection into the whole Wireless LAN.
4.4.1 General rules for WEP keys
When using WEP keys, please pay particular attention to the following gene-
ral information:
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You have to use exactly matching keys between all involved devices. All
devices use a common key within ad-hoc-networks. In infrastructure net-
works, the key between base station and its radio stations must match .
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Different key lengths cannot be used simultaneously on a base station. In
order to giving users with WEP64 devices encrypted access to a base sta-
tion, the encryption for this base station must be set to WEP64.
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Wireless LAN interfaces with WEP128 always contain also WEP64, too.
At the same time, WEP128 is downward compatible to WEP64. A
WEP128 device will register automatically with the short key at a WEP64
encrypted base station.
4.4.2 Valid key characters
One can enter WEP keys either as alpha-numeric strings (ASCII, consisting of
numbers '0'–'9', small letters 'a'–'z' and capitals 'A'–'Z'), or as hexadecimal
values (consisting of '0'–'9' and 'a'–'f').
All kinds of special characters, e.g. special regional characters ('ä', 'ö', 'ü', 'ß')
are no valid entries.